Nagaland Vigilance Com. submits probe report on fake teachers

Kohima, Jul 29 : The Nagaland Vigilance Commission, (Anti-Corruption), which was probing into the 'bogus teachers' scam, has submitted their report to the Nagaland Government.

An official notification from Director and Deputy Inspector General of Police of Vigilance and Anti-corruption J I Yaden stated today that the Vigilance Commission had said that out of 5,056 graduate and undergraduate teachers, 3,023 have been found to be genuine, 514 teachers under various categories 'doubtful' and 1,520 under various categories of 'Bogus (Illegal appointments)'.

However, the final report did not include the status of 1,084 teachers, who did not report to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Vigilance for verification.

This category was treated as 'absent teachers' in the SIT’s Preliminary Report submitted to the Government in February 2010.

''These categories of teachers were verified by the State Verification Committee (SVC) and District Verification Committee (DVC) of the School Education Department.

''The findings of the SVC and DVC of the School Education Department has not been intimated to the SIT Vigilance for taking up the criminal liability of those involved, if any,'' the notification said.

The Commission also clarified that the SIT Vigilance is not involved 'in any manner whatsoever' with the recent appointment of teachers under the School Education Department as published in the local media.

''This is not a part of its task,'' it stated.

The SIT has not received the status report of 1,084 absent teachers from the Education Department, the commission informed.